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pizza.

He paused, did a take, took two steps forward, and shielding his eyes from the glare of the spot with his
hand like an Indian scout, peered out into the audience.

тАЬHey, wait a minute, this don'tlook like Woodstock! Wheresa tie-dyes? Wheresa dope? Wheresa
topless knockers?"

Although this failed entirely to raise the audience from the dead, Texas Jimmy found himself moving to
the edge of his chair. There was something about this guy, something about his delivery, something about
that kazoo of a voice, something about the weird stance he had assumed before this audience, something
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about his entrance, that added up to a crazy energy that went right to Jimmy's backbrain....

The nose knows, Jimmy thought. Maybe it don't knowwhat it knows yet, but the nose knows.

Ralf put his hands on his hips, regarded the audience indignantly. тАЬHey, what is this, my agent told me I
was doinтАЩ thecapper on the Age of Aquarius, not thedeathwatch at the Sun City freezer!тАЭ

Dead silence.

тАЬWhere's Joe Cocker? Where's the Airplane? Where's Hendrix? Hey, if this is Woodstock,you
corpsicles gotta be the ones got stuffed inna time machine!"

Beat.

Ralf stuck two fingers in his big yawp and emitted a piercing whistle. тАЬAnybody still alive out there?тАЭ

He strutted to the lip of the stage, pointed imperiously at the salesman's teenage hooker.

тАЬYou!тАЭ he snapped. тАЬCome on, I knowyou're still breathing, I can see your boobs moving when I stare
down your cleavage, where the hell am I?"

тАЬKapplemeyer's Fabulous Sunset Room!тАЭ the girl managed to croak in a squeaky titter.

тАЬKugglehammers's Flatulent Schlockschtick Gloom?тАЭ

As a shriek of outrage that set the mirror ball vibrating.

Ralf's eyes rolled in horror. He recoiled a few steps back, staring around the room as if really seeing it
for the first time.

тАЬThese toilet-colored walls....the MC in the ten dollar funeral parlor tuxedo ... those dumb tropical
drinks with the puce plastic parasols...тАЭ he moaned. тАЬOh my God ... oh no, tell me it ain't so, those idiots
missed Woodstock and dropped me in theBorscht Belt! "